The BFI London film festival
Thomas Borch Nielsen is the director of Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms an animated film about a disco worm, who is fed up with being at the bottom of the food chain. One day, an old disco record turns his life upside down, and suddenly there's light ahead Barry wants to start the world's greatest disco band. His toe-tapping tale under lines the power of the boogie.
Ramchand Pakistani is a simple story, true story about a father and son who accidental crossing of the India-Pakistan border during a period of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries and are held captive in an Indian prison. A theme like this ought to be handled with kid gloves and director Mehreen Jabbar does just that. A sensitively told story that succeeds in making you think of the plight of scores of people who've accidentally crossed the border and are, perhaps, still languishing in various jails.
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something’s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority living in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco. Directed by Barry Jenkins who also wrote the story.
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Author: A Green
Date: October 2008
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